Investigators determined that UHP Sgt. Chamberlin Neff’s shooting of 32-year-old West Bountiful resident Cody McCray was “lawful, proper, and in effort to ensure public safety,” according to officials.

The state supreme court threw out the appeal of Percy Lee Wilder — a 46-year-old man convicted on first-degree felony counts of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault — after it re-examined the cases brought before a district court and the state appeals court.

U.S. Attorney’s Office in Santa Ana, California, said Shawn Patrick Watkins admitted in his plea agreement Monday, May 14, 2018, that he conducted monthly seminars in which he offered investments in his company from 2007 to October 2013, but 50 investors were victimized in the fraud scheme....